2016 Wilkinsburg shooting
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This article is about the 2016 mass shooting. For the 2000 racially motivated shooting spree, see 2000 Wilkinsburg shooting.
On March 9, 2016, six people were killed and three others injured in a mass shooting at a suburban house in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, near Pittsburgh. One of the victims was a pregnant woman, whose unborn baby was added to the number of fatalities on the day after the shooting. Two men, Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas, were charged in connection with the shooting, but charges against Thomas were later dropped and Shelton was acquitted at trial in 2020.
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Location | Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Date | March 9, 2016; 8 years ago (March 9, 2016) c. 11:00 p.m. |
Attack type | mass shooting |
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Deaths | 6 (including an unborn child) |
Injured | 3 |
Perpetrators | Unknown |
Accused | Cheron Shelton and Robert Thomas[2] |
Verdict | Not guilty |
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